The area under investigation is situated between the river Liri and the road which, leaving the town centre crosses the S. Lorenzo bridge – which at the end of the 19th century replaced the Roman one – and following the line of an ancient road crosses the Val di Comino e Atina leading to Cassino and the Volturno Valley. The excavation revealed a complex stratigraphic sequence which documented the long occupation of the area beginning in the 3rd century B.C.

The domus: phase I

Evidence of the first phase comprised an imposing enclosure wall to the west built in opus quadratum with travertine blocks and two internal walls on which traces of the plaster facing were preserved. Various architectural elements found reused in later structures, such as two bases and four column drums, probably belonged to this phase.
These structures date to the beginning of the 3rd century B.C.

The domus: phase II

Already during the course of the 2nd century B.C. the building must have been restructured. This was attested by the partial preservation of a number of pavements. In fact, the opus signinum pavement with white limestone tesserae inserted into a red background dates to this period. It overlays the internal walls of the preceding period. This pavement – using a decorative motif typical of the 2nd century B.C. – presented a double border with alternating meanders of swastikas and squares with a central cruciform motif formed by five tesserae. The border surrounded a grid of rhomboidal lozenges.
Two other pavements date to the same phase: the first in opus scutulatum and the second in opus signinum. A brief tract of an internal wall in opus incertum was preserved below the medieval foundations.

The kiln

The small kiln probably provided for the necessities of the domus. It was built abutting the opus quadratum enclosure wall and, at the moment of its discovery, the firing chamber was still full of vases, all small coarse ware jars with their lids, and loom weights.

The necropolis

The area saw a new occupation phase between the 4th and 5th century A.D., as would seem to be attested by finds of coins and fragments of ARS. In this period the area was totally transformed. This involved the partial reuse of walls and materials from the preceding phase, dictated by its new function as a cemetery. The necropolis had a well organised layout: all the burials found (circa twenty), built one after the other, showed the same alignment, construction techniques and funerary ritual. Most of the burials contained two adult individuals, with the first individual placed in secondary deposition, often at the feet, near the head or along the sides of the second individual to be placed in the tomb.

The church of San Lorenzo

The latest documented phase was medieval and centred on the remains of an ecclesiastical building which partly overlay the pre-existing structures. The church was in use between the 11th -13th century.
The plan showed a single nave with two side rooms and a single apse placed on the same axis as the nave.